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delete contents of recycler folder(s). temp folders, internet cache folders, cookies folder. delete hiberfil.sys and pagefile.sys

HLKM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

If you can create a BartPE cd on someone else machine you can possibly recover the missing.corrupt system file from the System recovery backup that was last created. Or backup the system and reload it. You may be able to contact acer to get a copy of the media.

I don't care if they show up, I have not had one on my machine that I didn't cause on purpose. Usually I have to fix them on client machines, but they are usually the just a handful of normal ones and don't take long to fix.

Unless you started completely over from scratch you only need to run the Prep command on the mounted image once. It removes the installable packages that you did not install.

I am far too familiar with Ghost, I was using it when it was still developed by Binary Research and I have the Ghost "beanie baby". the way I check those values before sending the command s to echo the variable back to the screen using a msgbox msgbox strTaskValue Then you can verify you have all of the quotes correct in the string before it executes and if not you can work out where they should be.

no this is true you will only get the enabled adapters with IPEnabled=true. What you have now should work assuming that the IPV4 address is always first. Not sure on that. But as a bonus with PE2 if you put the script into the WIM you can edit it when booted from the CD and test changes since the script resides in memory at that point. Then you don't have to rebuild everything until you know you have the script the way you want it and then save it to thumb drive or the local hard drive. I don't recall if notepad is in PE2 by default or not but you can throw the editor of your choice on and run that.

Couple of observations. 1 - You are looping through all adapters, fine if you only have one but otherwise it only returns data on the last adapter queried. 2 - Same issue with the IP addresses, with IPV4 & IPV6 both enabled in PE 2 the IPAddress field will contain more than one result but you are only ending up with the last value returned. Edit: If this is an HTA, you could append these values to the valueof a textbox or as added items in a listbox as you retrieve them instead of into a variable.

Well for one Ghost 2003/2008 are really the home versions. the Ghost Solutions Suite 2.0 is the Vista compatible enterprise version of Ghost and should handle it just fine. You have to use a switch to capture the entire boot record correctly but it should work just fine other than that.

Never mind, not an SP3 issue, either MDAC is hosed on my work machine or some domain policy is breaking it. Working just fine on a different machine with SP3 installed.

Sounds like the users need to lose their administrator privileges.

You can run a cmd file at the t-39 portion of setup to copy the files to the hard drive. And then later afterwards set the registry key. See the guide on DetachedProgram which is part of the winnt.sif answer file.

Sounds like you are after RIS or WDS.

You picked the one printer at least in your example that will cause you the most headaches. But enough of a minor rant on HP drivers. Scripted answer: strComputer = "." Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2") objWMIService.Security_.Privileges.AddAsString "SeLoadDriverPrivilege", True Set objDriver = objWMIService.Get("Win32_PrinterDriver") 'Laserjet 4200 'Installs Printer Driver 'Replace 'HP LaserJet 4200 PS' with the driver name from the INF objDriver.Name = "HP LaserJet 4200 PS" objDriver.SupportedPlatform = "Windows NT x86" objDriver.Version = "3" 'Replace with path to driver objDriver.FilePath = "c:\\DRIVERS\\lj4200ps\\" 'Replace with path and name of INF, though some drivers only need the INF name, don't ask me why. objDriver.Infname = "c:\\DRIVERS\\lj4200ps\\hpc4200d.inf" intResult = objDriver.AddPrinterDriver(objDriver) Manual method: Open Printers and Faxes control panel Click File select Server Properties select Drivers Tab Click Add Follow prompts in 'Add Printer Driver Wizard' Close Print Server Properties window. That should be all you need to do.

Ghost should do just what you want but from a boot disk either Dos or Windows PE. Acronis TrueImage is the only product I know of that will work on a running system to image it.

different OU or different groups get different shortcuts.

delete the CAT file included with the driver, remove the reference at the top of the INF to the CAT file, and then turn off driver signing.

It looks right but you should remove the space between EXCLUDE: and D:\filmi

That is the procedure I have used to boot from USB Flash drives and USB Hard drives. If the partitions on your drive were not created by from Vista or PE 2 then yes you will need to back it up first and the repartition and format it. Why FAT32 that is what the instructions have said on every site I looked at, I have not tried NTFS, though recently I seem to recall someone posting something here about how they did it.

single line: runas /user:alper\MYCOMP "xcopy /E /Y /Q """C:\Documents and Settings\alper\Desktop\*.*""" """D:\backup\alper\desktop\*.*"""

Yes, SP3 RC1 (I'm currently on build 3264)

It will get the CAT file if it can determine it's name and find it, it may not rename it to it's original name. Why would you back up the PNF files? They are created dynamically by windows. EDIT: Anyone out there running service pack 3 tried running this? It seems to not like my SP3 test box but it could be unrelated.

Exactly, the cd ALREADY has SP2 in it, so it doesn't need SP2 integrated. Which is why you get the error.

err u mean that i have to find out whatever services i need? like imagex? i dont see imagex there did i? but anyway i'll try that. Good guide tho That step does the copying of the tools to the CD, imagex and others.

nslookup result are interesting: